The first association of a primary amebic meningoencephalitis death with culturable naegleria fowleri in tap water from a US treated public drinking water system

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2015, Pages e36-e42

  Cope, Jennifer R ^a   Ratard, Raoult C ^b   Hill, Vincent R ^a   Sokol, Theresa ^b   Causey, Jonathan Jake ^b   Yoder, Jonathan S ^a   Mirani, Gayatri ^c   Mull, Bonnie ^a   Mukerjee, Kimberly A ^c   Narayanan, Jothikumar ^a   Doucet, Meggie ^c   Qvarnstrom, Yvonne ^a   Poole, Charla N ^c   Akingbola, Olugbenga A ^c   Ritter, Jana M ^a   Xiong, Zhenggang ^c   Da Silva, Alexandre J ^a   Roellig, Dawn ^a   Van Dyke, Russell B ^c   Stern, Harlan ^c   Xiao, Lihua ^a   Beach, Michael J ^a   more..

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

free living ameba; Naegleria fowleri; primary amebic meningoencephalitis

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; TAP WATER; OLIGOPEPTIDE; TYROSYL-ARGINYL-PHENYLALANYL-SARCOSINE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; DISINFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY AMEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING; AMEBIASIS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

AMEBIASIS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRINKING WATER; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; OLIGOPEPTIDES;

EID: 84926651449     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ017     Document Type: Article

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